From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 14 21:14:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02846 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02839 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from laptop (dial-41.ocis.net [209.52.173.73]) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA25372 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:14:13 -0800 Message-Id: <199902150514.VAA25372@ocis.ocis.net> From: "Freddie Cash" To: brett@lariat.org Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:13:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day Reply-to: fcash@bigfoot.com CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <4.1.19990214211350.03fa3a90@mail.lariat.org> References: <19990214135704.A13436@mooseriver.com> X-PM-Encryptor: QDPGP, 4 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > >I was interviewed by the San Jose Mercury > >News and the reporter told me that all the Linux people he interviewed > >took great pains to point out that there were other OSS beside Linux. > >They emphasized that Linux is equal to FreeBSD in most ways and FreeBSD > >was better in a good number of ways. > Are you sure they really did that? If so, how come the only Mercury News > article on the subject (other than a tiny passing reference in Dan > Gillmor's column) > only alludes to operating systems other than Linux in a vague way > and mentions NO other by name? > I think that the event is being cast as Linux-only by the promoters, > and that you're being used. I really mean it. That may be true of the SJ MN, but CNet Radio mentions Linux, OS/2, Netware, "and other alternative OS". Yes, the headline is "Linux Users Head for Microsoft", but the rest of the story deals with all non-MS OS's. There is a definite Linux slant, but it is not the only OS mentioned. There's also a neat mention of the difficulty to buy a PC w/o Windows, due to MS-OEM contracts. Freddie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 -- QDPGP 2.12 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBNsetFv1GU6dOoWY/EQIW7ACdF+RmVOtUUZErRvMZ7/ruJXcMp4UAn16D 3g9TwKORSioGUcla5hOSn6Qh =XFws -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message